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Jan 15, 2007 · Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was one of the primary poets and writers of the Surrealist movement of the years 1924-1930. He wrote, and collaboratively wrote, many influential and celebrated books. Besides poetry, Desnos also wrote on a wide range of subjects from film texts and criticism to novels. During WWII he became a poet of the resistance ...
I call the one I love. I call the one I love. I call the one I love. the jubilant midnight unfolds its satin wings and perches on my bed. the belfries and the poplars bend to my wish. the former collapse the latter bow down. those lost in the fields are found in finding me. the old skeletons are revived by my voice.
Robert Desnos was one of a group of surrealist poets who were around in the early part of the 20 th century. His contemporaries included Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon and it wasÉluard who delivered a passionate address following the death of Desnos in 1945.
Robert Desnos. Robert Desnos, 1900-45, was the most exciting and skilful French poet of his time. He first delighted the Surrealists with his spontaneous super-Spoonerisms by ‘Rrose Sélavy’. Of his love-poems, the first included in MPT 3/7 were among those he wrote for the chanteuse Yvonne George. She did not respond and around 1929 he ...
Aug 29, 2023 · Robert Desnos was born in Paris at 32, boulevard Richard-Lenoir. He is the second child of Lucien Desnos and Claire Guillais. In 1902, the family moved to the working-class district of Les Halles, where his father was an agent for poultry and game, but also deputy mayor of the district.
One name you might not know: Robert Desnos. Excommunicated from the movement by Breton, Desnos is at once an artist who troubles the traditional narrative of surrealism and who embodies most wholly some of its most important tenets. Despite Breton’s on-paper embrace of anti-elitism in art, it annoyed him that Desnos came from a working class ...
Robert Desnos Biography Robert Desnos, the son of a café owner, was born on July 4, 1900, in Paris. He attended commercial college, and then worked as a clerk before becoming a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir.
